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• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 7:33 AM

  DaddysKat:

  SweetiePie:

  Thanks !! Of all humans that have ever lived, Thomas Jefferson is my 2nd favorite

  Hmmm ... kinda debatable ... Now if you were to add Abigail Adams, her husband John Adams and the relationship those three shared ... yeah ... definitely a #1 in the history books!

  Well, that trio certainly enjoyed a 50+ year friendship with some bumps along the journey and it is treasure to read about ;-}

  January 8

  1081 - Henry V ~ Roman German King

  1587 - Johannes Fabricius ~ Denmark Astronomer ~ discovered sunspots ~ I have a sun filter for my telescope that easily resolves sunspots but wonder what was used then

  1862 - Frank Doubleday ~ Publisher

  1935 - Elvis Presley

  1940 - Anthony Gaurdine ~ "Little Anthony"

  1942 - Stephen Hawking

  1947 - David Bowie

  1983 - Kim Jong-un ~ ?

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1297 ~ Monaco gains its independence

  1598 ~ Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy

  1790 ~ President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address

  1835 ~ The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time

  1877 ~ Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with US Cavalry

  1962 ~ Jack Nicklaus' 1st pro appearance -- 50th place

  1974 ~ GOLD !! hits $ 126.50 per ounce -- BUY !! BUY !!

  1974 ~ SILVER !! hits $ 3.40 per ounce -- BUY !! BUY!!

  1992 ~ President George Bush vomits on Japanese Prime Minister's lap ... I don't eat suchi either...

  ~ Peace ~

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 9:51 AM

  Great work, as always, Lily.

  SweetiePie:

  1587 - Johannes Fabricius ~ Denmark Astronomer ~ discovered sunspots ~ I have a sun filter for my telescope that easily resolves sunspots but wonder what was used then

  

  SweetiePie:

  1947 - David Bowie

  Deserves a tune -

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Jan 9 2015 7:19 AM

  PaulTon:

  Great work, as always, Lily.

  SweetiePie:

  1587 - Johannes Fabricius ~ Denmark Astronomer ~ discovered sunspots ~ I have a sun filter for my telescope that easily resolves sunspots but wonder what was used then

  Thanks Paul....that's a pretty cool looking method...they have scopes with filters now that capture solar prominence's vividly...about $1,000 scoots gets a good one...I haven't bit as of yet ;-}

  January 9

                              ~ 1980 - Sergio Garcia ~ Spain ~

  1554 - Gregory XV ~ Pope

  1720 - Thomas Warton ~ Poet laureate of England

  1773 - Cassandra Austen ~ English Watercolorist and sister of Jane

  1854 - Jennie Jerome ~ American Society Beauty and mother of Winston Churchill

  1901 - Chic Young ~ cartoonist ~ Blondie

  1913 - Richard Nixon ~ POTUS # 37

  1925 - Lee Van Cleef ~ actor

  1935 - Bob Denver ~ Dobie

  1944 - Jimmy Page ~ guitar player

  1982 - Cathrine "Kate" Middleton ~ House of Windsor ~ Duchess of Cambridge

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1317 ~ Phillips V, the Tall, crowned King of France

  1349 ~ 700 Jews of Basel, Switzerland are burned alive in their houses

  1493 ~ 1st sight of manatees -- Christopher Columbus

  1570 ~ Tsar Ivan the Terrible kills about 2,000 folk

  1718 ~ France declares WAR on Spain

  1811 ~ 1st Womans Golf Tournament is held

  1847 ~ 1st "Frisco" newspaper published -- California Star

  1941 ~ 6,000 Jews exterminated in Bucharest, Romania

  ~ some good news would be nice ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Jan 10 2015 6:56 AM

  January 10

  1738 - Ethan Allen ~ Revolutionary War Patriot ~ Leader of the "Green Mountain Boys"

  1843 - Frank James ~ American Outlaw Trash ~ brother to Jesse. more trash

  1864 - George Washington Carver ~ Agricultural Scientist esp. the peanut

  1892 - Dumas Malone ~ historian

  1904 - Ray Bolger ~ Of OZ

  1930 - Roy Disney

  1939 - Sal Mineo

  1945 - Rod Stewart

  1949 - George Foreman '-}

  ~ By the Bye ~

  49BC ~ Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon -- it signals the start of a Roman civil war ~ it profoundly alters history to this day

  1776 ~ "Common Sense" a pamphlet by Thomas Paine is published -- it advocates American Independence --

  1863 ~ 1st underground railway opens in London

  1870 ~ John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil

  1883 ~ FIRE!!! at the uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, fondues 71 guests except Tom Thumb of PT Barnum fame who escapes

  1901 ~ OIL!! is discovered in Texas 

  1958 ~ Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" hits #1 in UK pop charts

  ~ Peace & Grace ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sun, Jan 11 2015 8:56 AM

  January 11

    347 - Emperor Theodosius I "The Great" of Rome

  1630 - John Rodgers ~ President of Harvard

  1755 - Alexander Hamilton ~ Nevis, West Indies ~ Founding Father with mostly opposite thinking than Thomas Jefferson ~ very smart, however

  1807 - Ezra Cornell ~ Cornell University

  1815 - John Macdonald ~ Glasgow, Scotland ~ 1st Prime Minister of Canada

  1906 - Albert Hofman ~ Chemist ~ LSD

  1923 - Carroll Shelby

  ~ Play Well ~

• jimd7777 33 Posts

  Sun, Jan 11 2015 2:07 PM

   Hamilton also credited with starting the Revenue Cutter Service, 1790, which later became the U.S. Coast Guard.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Jan 14 2015 8:14 AM

  jimd7777:

   Hamilton also credited with starting the Revenue Cutter Service, 1790, which later became the U.S. Coast Guard.

  Thank you ! I've read quite a bit on Hamilton but was not aware of this ;-}

  January 14

                          ~ 1944 - Graham Marsh ~ Austrialia ~

  83BC - Mark Antony [Marcus Antonius] ~ death by suicide shortly before Cleo

  1507 - Catherine of Habsburg ~ Queen of Portugal

  1741 - Benedict Arnold ~ Revolutionary War General turned traitor...a mistake

  1875 - Albert Schweitzer

  1892 - Hal Roach ~ Early film producer

  1919 - Andy Rooney ~ 60 minutes

  1941 - Faye Dunaway

  ~ By the Bye ~

  very slim pickens

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, Jan 14 2015 9:01 AM

  SweetiePie:

  ~ By the Bye ~

  very slim pickens

  1920		Berlin is placed under martial law as 40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead and 105 are wounded.
  1942		President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government. 1980   The United Nations votes 104-18 to deplore the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. 2000   UN tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to prison for up to 25 years; they were charged with killing some 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village in 1993. Crazy spacing brought to you by WGT inc.

• newcastleb 1,813 Posts

  Wed, Jan 14 2015 10:02 AM

  PaulTon:

  Crazy spacing brought to you by WGT inc.

  Gosh, and there I was thinking you were just being all arty-farty-creative like  :)

  Thomas

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Jan 15 2015 7:56 AM

  Thanks Sir Paul !

  January 15

  1432 - Afonso V "The African" ~ King of Portugal

  1622 - Moliere ~ French Playwright

  1716 - Philip Livingstone ~ Signer of The Declaration of Independence

  1870 - Pierre duPont ~ American businessman

  1908 - Edward Teller ~ Father of the H-Bomb

  1909 - Gene Bugatti ~ German born Auto designer

  1929 - Marty King, Jr ~ Preacher

  1945 - Vince Foster ~ ????

  ~ Bye the Bye ~

  588BC ~ Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon (where else ?) lays siege to Jerusalem

  1535 ~ Henry VIII ~ House of Tudor ~ declares himself head of the Church in England

  1759 ~ British Museum opens in London

  1762 ~ Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC....still open

  1797 ~ 1st Top Hat is worn in London

  1889 ~ Coca-Cola is incorporated

  1947 ~ The body of Elizabeth Short is found in a neighborhood field in LA. She was cut entirely in half at the belly-button and left naked as a jaybird...never solved...the scene & autopsy photos are vivid

  ~ see ya ~